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Abbott and Costello
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Abbott and Costello were a comedy double act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. The team was composed of William Bud Abbott and Lou Costello whose work in vaudeville and on stage, radio, film and television made them the most popular team during the 1940s. Their patter routine Whos on First, is one of the best-known comedy routines of all time and set the framework for many of their best-known comedy bits. Bud Abbott was a veteran burlesque entertainer from a business family. He worked at Coney Island and ran his own burlesque touring companies and he first worked as a straight man with his wife Betty, then with veteran burlesque comedians like Harry Steppe and Harry Evanson. When he met his partner in comedy, Abbott was performing in Minskys Burlesque shows. Lou Costello had been a burlesque comic since 1930, after failing to break into acting and working as a stunt double. He appears briefly in the 1927 Laurel and Hardy silent two-reeler, The Battle of the Century, the two men first worked together in 1935, at the Eltinge Burlesque Theater on 42nd Street—now the lobby of the AMC Empire movie complex in New York City. This first performance together occurred due to Costellos regular partner being ill, when AMC moved the old theater 168 ft further west on 42nd Street to its current location, giant balloons of Abbott and Costello were rigged to appear to pull it. Other performers in the show, including Abbotts wife Betty, advised a permanent pairing, the teams first known radio appearance was on The Kate Smith Hour in February 1938. The similarities between their voices made it difficult for listeners to tell them apart during their rapid-fire repartee. To solve the problem, Costello began affecting a high-pitched, childish voice, was first performed for a national radio audience the following month. They performed on the program as regulars for two years, while also landing roles in a Broadway revue, The Streets of Paris, in 1940, Universal Studios signed them for the film One Night in the Tropics. Cast in supporting roles, they stole the show with several classic routines, the same year they were a summer replacement on radio for Fred Allen. Two years later, they had their own NBC program, The Abbott, Universal then signed them to a long-term contract, and their second film, Buck Privates, in 1941 made them box-office stars and saved Universal from imminent bankruptcy. The singing sisters became good friends with Costello during this period, enjoying many barbecues, in 1945, the two acts traded guest appearances on each others top-rated radio shows. Bud and Lou made 36 films together between 1940 and 1956 and they were among the most popular and highest-paid entertainers in the world during World War II. Other film successes included Keep Em Flying, Who Done It, pardon My Sarong, The Time of Their Lives, Buck Privates Come Home, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

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Bud Abbott
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William Alexander Abbott, known professionally as Bud Abbott, was an American actor, producer, and comedian. He is best remembered as the man of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. Abbott was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey on October 2,1897 and his parents, Rae Fisher and Harry Abbott, had worked for the Barnum and Bailey Circus. Several years after the family relocated to Brooklyn, Abbott dropped out of school to begin working with his father at Dreamland Park on Coney Island. When he was 15, Abbott signed on as a boy on a Norwegian steamer. He eventually worked his way back to the United States after a year, by then his father was an employee of the Columbia Burlesque Wheel, and installed Bud in the box office of the Casino Theater in Brooklyn. Bud spent the few years in burlesque box offices. In 1918, working in Washington D. C. he met and married Jenny Mae Pratt and they remained together until his death 55 years later. In 1923 Abbott produced a cut-rate vaudeville tab show called Broadway Flashes, Abbott began performing as a straight man in the show when he could no longer afford to pay one. He continued producing and performing in shows on the Mutual Burlesque wheel. Abbott suffered from epilepsy starting from about 1926, in 1964, he suffered the first in a series of strokes. Abbott crossed paths with Lou Costello in burlesque a few times in the early 1930s when Abbott was producing and performing in Minskys Burlesque shows and they first worked together in 1935 at the Eltinge Theatre on 42nd Street, after an illness sidelined Costellos regular partner. They formally teamed up in 1936, and went on to perform together in burlesque, vaudeville, minstrel shows, in 1938, they received national exposure as regulars on the Kate Smith Hour radio show, which led to roles in a Broadway musical, The Streets of Paris. In 1940, Universal signed the team for their first film, despite having minor roles, Abbott and Costello stole the film with several classic routines, including an abbreviated version of Whos On First. During World War II, Abbott and Costello were among the most popular, between 1940 and 1956 they made 36 films and earned a percentage of the profits on each. They had their own radio program throughout the 1940s, first on NBC from 1942 to 1947, in the 1950s, they introduced their comedy to live television on The Colgate Comedy Hour, and launched their own half-hour series, The Abbott and Costello Show. Abbott was very supportive of his relatives, Norman and Betty Abbott, the children of Buds older sister, Olive, started their careers working behind the scenes on Abbott and Costello films. Betty became Blake Edwards longtime script supervisor, and Norman directed many television sitcoms, including the Jack Benny Show and Sanford, relations between Abbott and Costello were strained by egos and salary disputes

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Christopher Abbott
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Christopher Jacob Abbott is an American actor. He made his film debut in Martha Marcy May Marlene. His other notable films include Hello I Must Be Going, The Sleepwalker, in 2015, he starred as the title character in the critically acclaimed film James White. Abbott is mostly known for his role as Charlie Dattolo in the HBO comedy-drama series Girls and he has also had an extensive career on stage, having performed in both Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. Abbott was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, the son of Anna and he has an older sister, Christina. Abbott is of Italian and Portuguese descent and he spent his early years in Chickahominy, a working-class, heavily Italian-American neighborhood in Greenwich, and grew up in Stamford. He worked at a video store and at his friends wine store. He attended Norwalk Community College shortly before he began studying acting at HB Studio and he moved to New York City in 2006 to be closer to school. After moving to New York, Abbott began going to big open calls for plays while in school and this is how he got his two first acting jobs, Off-Broadway. The first play, Good Boys and True, opened in the Spring of 2008 and was written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and it followed a scandal at a prep school. Abbott played the lead characters gay best friend, Justin, the second play, Mouth to Mouth, opened in the Fall of 2008. The mordant and mournful play about the limits of friendship and family was written by Kevin Elyot, Abbott played the sympathetic 15-year-old son of Laura. Abbott received positive reviews for both productions and he followed this with guest-starring roles in the comedy series Nurse Jackie and the police procedural series Law & Order, Criminal Intent. In 2010, Abbott co-starred opposite Cristin Milioti and Laila Robins in the play That Face at the Manhattan Theatre Club and he made his feature film debut in the 2011 drama thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene opposite Elizabeth Olsen. Written and directed by Sean Durkin, the filmed premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in January and it was met with positive reviews. The same year, Abbott made his Broadway debut in the revival of the play The House of Blue Leaves opposite Ben Stiller, directed by David Cromer, the play opened in April 2011. Abbott played the part of the sullen, recently drafted son, Ronnie Shaughnessy, in 2012, Abbott co-starred opposite Melanie Lynskey in the comedy-drama film Hello I Must Be Going. The film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, and was released theatrically in the United States on September 7,2012, critic Roger Ebert praised the film and Abbotts performance

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George Abbott
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George Francis Abbott was an American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned nine decades. Abbott was born in Forestville, New York to George Burwell Abbott and he later moved to the town of Salamanca, which twice elected his father mayor. In 1898, his family moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he attended Kearney Military Academy, within a few years, his family returned to New York, and he graduated from Hamburg High School in 1907. Four years later, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Rochester, Abbott then went to Harvard University, to take a course in playwriting from George Pierce Baker. Under Bakers tutelage, he wrote The Head of the Family and he then worked for a year as assistant stage manager at the Bijou Theatre in Boston, where his play The Man in the Manhole won a contest. Abbott started acting on Broadway in 1913, debuting in The Misleading Lady, while acting in several plays in New York City, he began to write, his first successful play was The Fall Guy. Abbott acquired a reputation as a show doctor. He frequently was called upon to supervise changes when a show was having difficulties in tryouts or previews prior to its Broadway opening and his first great hit was Broadway, written and directed in partnership with Philip Dunning, whose play Abbott rejiggered. It opened on September 16,1926, at the Broadhurst Theatre, other successes followed, and it was a rare year that did not have an Abbott production on Broadway. He also worked in Hollywood as a writer and director while continuing with his theater work, in 1963, he published his autobiography, Mister Abbott. Abbott was married to Edna Lewis from 1914 to her death in 1930, actress Mary Sinclair was his second wife. Their marriage lasted from 1946 until their 1951 divorce and he had a long romance with actress Maureen Stapleton from 1968 to 1978. She was 43 and he was 81 when they began their affair and his third wife was Joy Valderrama. They were married from 1983 until his death in 1995, Abbott was a vigorous man who remained active past his 100th birthday by golfing and dancing. He died of a stroke on January 31,1995, in Miami Beach, Florida, at the age of 106, he walked down the aisle on opening night of the Damn Yankees revival and received a standing ovation. He was heard saying to his companion, There must be somebody important here.1 In 1965, the building was demolished in 1970. New York Citys George Abbott Way, the section of West 45th Street northwest of Times Square, is named after him. He received New York Citys Handel Medallion in 1976, honorary doctorates from the Universities of Rochester and Miami, and he was also inducted into the Western New York Entertainment Hall of Fame and the American Theatre Hall of Fame

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Walter Abel
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Walter Abel was an American stage and film character actor. Known as a prolific and very dependable character actor, Abel appeared in over 200 films, often portraying characters of responsibility, Abel was a regular in films of the 1940s and 1950s, in particular. A distinctive bearing and direct gaze were two of his trademarks and his eyes were brown and his height was 510. Abel was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the son of Christine, Abel graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts where he had studied in 1917 and joined a touring company. His brother Alfred died in 1922 from tuberculosis contracted while serving overseas in World War I, Abel was married to concert harpist Marietta Bitter. Abel made his debut in 1918 with a small part in Out of a Clear Sky. He made his Broadway debut in Forbidden in 1919, in 1924 he appeared in two Eugene ONeill plays simultaneously, Bound East for Cardiff at the The Provincetown Playhouse and Desire Under the Elms at the Greenwich Village Theater. He also appeared in Channing Pollocks play The Enemy with Fay Bainter, the play was adapted to film as The Enemy with Lillian Gish and Ralph Forbes. He made his debut in London in the 1929 Coquette. His first major role was as DArtagnan in RKO Picturess 1935 The Three Musketeers. Abel went on to play in more than sixty films, Abel was a vice president of the Screen Actors Guild. Abel also appeared as a narrator or reader with Eugene Ormandy the Philadelphia Orchestra in Aaron Coplands Portrait of Lincoln in 1951. Abel died March 26,1987, of an infarction in Essex. He was survived by two sons, John and Michael, as Dr George Benedict Hold Back the Dawn as Inspector Hammock Skylark as George Gore Glamour Boy as A. J. Colder Beyond the Blue Horizon as Professor Thornton Star Spangled Rhythm as B. G

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Edward Abeles
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Edward Abeles was an American actor. He appeared in 8 films between 1914 and 1918, prior to joining Famous Players-Lasky, he was actually one of the founding members, he had a lengthy stage career behind him. He starred in the 1906 Broadway hit Brewsters Millions and he then later starred in the first film version of the play, directed by Cecil B. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri and died in New York City, New York, Brewsters Millions The Making of Bobby Burnit Edward Abeles at the Internet Movie Database Edward Abeles at the Internet Broadway Database Edward Abeles portrait at New York Public Library

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F. Murray Abraham
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F. Murray Abraham is an American actor. He became widely known during the 1980s after winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus and he is also known for his television and theatre work and is now a regular cast member on the award-winning television series Homeland. Abraham was born as Murray Abraham on October 24,1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Fahrid Fred Abraham, a mechanic, and his wife Josephine. His father was Assyrian and emigrated from Syria at age 5 during the 1920s famine and his mother, one of 14 children, was Italian American, and the daughter of an immigrant who worked in the coal mines of Western Pennsylvania. He had two brothers, Robert and Jack, who were killed in car accidents. Abraham was raised in El Paso, Texas, near the Mexican border and he attended Vilas Grammar School, and graduated from El Paso High School in 1958. He was a member during his teenage years. He attended Texas Western College, where he was given the best actor award by Alpha Psi Omega for his portrayal of the Indian Nocona in Comanche Eagle during the 1959–60 season. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, then studied acting under Uta Hagen in New York City and he began his acting career on the stage, debuting in a Los Angeles production of Ray Bradburys The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit. Abraham added F. to his name in honor of his father. He has stated Murray Abraham just doesnt seem to say anything and it just is another name, so I thought Id frame it. Abraham made his debut as an usher in the George C. Scott comedy They Might Be Giants. By the mid-1970s, Murray had steady employment as an actor, doing commercials, Abraham can be seen as one of the undercover police officers along with Al Pacino in Sidney Lumets Serpico, and in television roles including the bad guy in one third-season episode of Kojak. He played a cabdriver in the version of The Prisoner of Second Avenue, a mechanic in the theatrical version of The Sunshine Boys. Despite these small roles, Abraham continued to do commercials and voice-over work for income, but in 1978, he decided to give them up. Frustrated with the lack of roles, Abraham said, No one was taking my acting seriously. I figured if I didnt do it, then Id have no right to the dreams Ive always had and his wife, Kate Hannan, went to work as an assistant and Abraham became a house husband. He described, I cooked and cleaned and took care of the kids and it was very rough on my macho idea of life

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Eddie Acuff
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Eddie Acuff was an American actor. His best-known recurring role is that of Mr. Beasley, the postman, in the Blondie movie series that starred Penny Singleton and he was born in Caruthersville, Missouri. Acuffs maternal uncle was a performer on 19th century showboats along the Mississippi River, before beginning his Hollywood film career in 1934, he performed in Broadway theatre in the early-1930s. He died in Hollywood, California, and is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, Eddie Acuff at the Internet Broadway Database Eddie Acuff at the Internet Movie Database Eddie Acuff at AllMovie http, //www. acuff. org/ Eddie Acuff at Find a Grave

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Charles R. Adams
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Charles R. Adams was an American opera singer and singing instructor. An excellent tenor and fine actor, he had a stage presence and was particularly admired for his interpretations of the works of Richard Wagner. Adams was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1834, the son of Charles Adams and he studied music in Boston under Edwin Bruce, Mme. In 1856, he was the tenor soloist in Joseph Haydns oratorio The Creation, with the Handel and Haydn Society, and went on to tour the United States and he moved to Vienna where he studied with Carlo Barbieri and sang lead tenor roles at the Vienna State Opera. They included Elvino in Bellinis La sonnambula and he next went on tour in Russia and the Netherlands before joining the Royal Opera in Berlin. Adams stayed there for three years, before becoming the principal tenor of the Vienna Hofoper from 1867 to 1876. He also sang two seasons at the Royal Opera House in Londons Covent Garden, one season at the Royal Palace of Madrid, and one season at La Scala, Milan. Adams toured America with the Carl Strakosch company in 1877 and 1878 and he also performed in other German operas with Mme. Poppenheim and in Italian operas with Clara Louise Kellogg, Maria Litta and his greatest operatic roles were Manrico in Il trovatore, the title part in Lohengrin, Cola di Rienzo in Rienzi, and the title part in Tannhäuser. In his later life, from 1879 on, he worked as a teacher in Boston and his students included the likes of Arthur Middleton, Grace Hiltz, Nellie Melba, and Emma Eames, the latter being his most celebrated pupil. He died in West Harwich, on Cape Cod, in 1900, who Was Who in America, Historical Volume 1607-1896. Ottenberg, Charles R. Adams, Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy, Adams, Charles R

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Edwin Adams (actor)
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Edwin Adams was an American stage actor, considered to have been one of Americas best light comedians. He was born in Medford, Massachusetts, and began his career on the stage in The Hunchback, at the National Theatre in Boston in 1853. He also appeared in Hamlet with Kate Josephine Bateman in 1860, as well in The Serf in 1865, and The Dead Heart, Wild Oats, The Lady of Lyons, Narcisse, and The Marble Heart. In 1867, Adams joined Edwin Booths acting company, appearing in Romeo and Juliet, Narcisse, Othello, from 1870-75, Adams toured the country performing his best-known roles. His last appearance was at the California Theatre in San Francisco in 1876 and his health failed on a visit to Australia, and he died in Philadelphia in 1877. He is buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery, who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896

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J. B. Adams
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J. B. Adams is an American character stage and film actor, director, and singer. He has credits in film, television and, most notably, originally from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, he attended Oklahoma City University, where he studied voice, piano, opera, and musical theatre, after which he became a New York-based Broadway actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the Broadway productions of Beauty and the Beast, Annie, Parade, Me And My Girl, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. He played the role of Morris Farnsworth in the film Far From Heaven, on TV and the web, he has played Santa for Verizon FiOS and has had guest starring roles on Law & Order, Special Victims Unit and The Michael J. Fox Show. Adams at the Internet Broadway Database J. B, Adams at the Internet Movie Database J. B. Adams Official fansite Broadway World J. B. profile

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Wesley Addy
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Robert Wesley Addy was an American actor. Addy was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Maren S. Addy served in the United States Army during World War II. He played many roles on the Broadway stage, including several Shakespearean ones, also on television he played roles on The Edge of Night in the 1950s. He made two guest appearances on Perry Mason, Alton Brent in the 1962 episode, The Case of the Weary Watchdog, later, during the 1970s-1980s, he played publisher Bill Woodard on Ryans Hope and patriarch Cabot Alden on the Agnes Nixon-Douglas Marland serial Loving. His television career also includes guest appearances on The Defenders, The Outer Limits, The Fugitive, Ironside, in motion pictures, Addys career spanned four decades. Robert Aldrich used him as supporting actor in pictures, such as Kiss Me Deadly, The Big Knife. Hush, Sweet Charlotte and The Grissom Gang, in 1976, Addy appeared in Paddy Chayefskys Network, directed by Sidney Lumet. They would work again in The Verdict, in which Addy played a doctor who nearly derails Paul Newmans case against a hospital for malpractice. Another of Addys best-remembered roles was that of Lt. Commander Alvin Kramer and he was married to actress Celeste Holm from 1961 until his death. The couple lived in Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey, – Marty McDonald 4 for Texas – Winthrop Trowbridge Hush. Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Sheriff Luke Standish Seconds – John Mister Buddwing – Dice Player The Rat Patrol - Col. Ulrich Leske Tora. Alvin D. Kramer The Grissom Gang – John P. Blandish Network – Nelson Chaney The Europeans – Mr. Wentworth The Verdict – Dr. Towler The Bostonians – Dr

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Luther Adler
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Luther Adler was an American actor best known for his work in theatre, but who also worked in film and television. He also directed plays on Broadway, Adler was born Lutha Adler on May 4,1903 in New York City. He was one of six born to Russian Jewish actors Sara. His father was considered to be one of the founders of the Yiddish theatre in America and his siblings also worked in theatre, his sister Stella Adler achieved fame as an actress and drama teacher. His brother Jay also achieved fame as an actor. Adlers father gave him his first acting job in the Yiddish play, Schmendrick, at the Thalia Theatre in Manhattan in 1908, Adler was then 5 years old. His first Broadway plays were The Hand of the Potter in 1921, Humoresque in 1923, Monkey Talks in 1925, Money Business and We Americans in 1926, John in 1927, Red Rust and Street Scene in 1929. In 1931 Adler became one of the members of the Group Theatre, a New York City theatre collective formed by Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman. The founders, as well as the actors in the group, tended to hold left-wing political views, the collective lasted for ten years, had twenty productions, and served as an inspiration for many actors, directors, and playwrights who came after it. Elia Kazan considered Adler to be the best actor working in the company, in 1932 Adler starred in John Howard Lawsons, Success Story and garnered rave reviews for his performance. In 1933 Adler briefly joined the Katherine Cornell Company, playing opposite Cornell in Alien Corn, unfortunately Gold Eagle Guy was not popular with audiences and had a short run. Adler had suspected the play would not succeed, remarking, shortly before it opened, Boys, Adler went on to appear in Group Theatre productions, Awake and Sing. and Paradise Lost, and he performed with Frances Farmer in Golden Boy. He also appeared in Kurt Weills anti-war musical Johnny Johnson and originated the role of Captain Joshua in the 1939 Group Theater production of Thunder Rock, the cohesiveness of the group began to crumble. The chronic financial problems and long-simmering disputes about the method began to chip away at their solidarity, and in 1941 the group dissolved. By the early 1940s Adler began to direct, but his first production They Should Have Stood in Bed closed after only eleven performances in 1942, in 1937 Adler began to appear in films, although they were never his highest priority. His credits included Wake of the Red Witch, House of Strangers, the Desert Fox, The Story of Rommel, M, Voyage of the Damned and Absence of Malice. Adler was married to actress Sylvia Sidney from 1938 until 1946 and was the father of Sidneys only child, her son Jacob, who predeceased her. He died in Kutztown, Pennsylvania and was buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale, New York, next to several of his relatives, including his older sister Stella

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Casey Affleck
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Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt is an American actor and director. He began his career as a actor, appearing in the PBS television movie Lemon Sky. He later appeared in three Gus Van Sant films – To Die For, Good Will Hunting, and Gerry – and in Steven Soderberghs comedy heist trilogy Oceans Eleven, Oceans Twelve and his first leading role was in Steve Buscemis independent comedy-drama Lonesome Jim. In 2010, he directed the mockumentary Im Still Here, the film features his brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix, and starred as a serial killer in The Killer Inside Me. He then appeared as an outlaw in Aint Them Bodies Saints, in 2016, Affleck appeared in the crime thriller Triple 9, the disaster drama The Finest Hours, and the drama Manchester by the Sea. For his performance as a man in the latter, he won the Golden Globe, BAFTA. Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck was born on August 12,1975 in Falmouth, Massachusetts, to Christopher Anne Chris, the surname Affleck is of Scottish origin. He also has English, Irish, German, and Swiss ancestry and his mother was a Radcliffe College– and Harvard–educated elementary school teacher. His father worked sporadically as a mechanic, a carpenter, a bookie, an electrician, a bartender. In the mid-1960s, he had been a manager, director, writer. During Afflecks childhood, his father was a disaster of a drinker, following his parents divorce when he was nine, Affleck and his older brother, Ben, lived with their mother and visited their father weekly. His first experience of acting was reenacting what was happening at home during role play exercises at Alateen meetings and he learned to speak Spanish during a year spent travelling around Mexico with his mother and brother when he was ten. The two siblings spent all of our time together, pretty much, obviously at school we were in different grades, but we had the same friends. When Affleck was 14, his father moved to Indio, California to enter a rehabilitation facility, Affleck reconnected with his father during visits to California as a teenager, I got to know him, really, because he was sober for the first time. The man I knew before that was just completely different, the brothers sometimes appeared in local weather commercials and as movie extras because of their mothers friendship with a local casting director. Affleck acted in high school theater productions while a student at Cambridge Rindge. He has said he wouldn’t be an actor if not for his high school theater teacher Gerry Speca, He kind of turned me on to acting, why it can be fun, how it can be rewarding. At the age of eighteen, Affleck moved to Los Angeles for a year to pursue an acting career and he soon transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he followed the core curriculum for a total of two years

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Lloyd Ahlquist
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Ahlquist has performed as an MC, actor, improviser and writer. In addition to the rap battles, Ahlquist, along with Shukoff, appeared in a cameo in The SpongeBob Movie, Ahlquist was the former General Manager and Artistic Director of M. I. s Westside Comedy Theater. Ahlquist also studied at UMass Amherst and later trained in Chicago at The Second City, Improv Olympic and Annoyance Theatre. Ahlquist was one of the members of Mission IMPROVable. He founded the troupe after dropping out of the University of Massachusetts with five classmates. In August 2014, Ahqluist hosted YouTubes first live-streamed improv comedy event, Lloyd runs his own YouTube channel that launched on April 20,2011. To date,16 Dis Raps for Hire have been produced, season 2 of Dis Raps for Hire started on March 11,2013. On July 17,2012, Lloyds channel hit 200,000 subscribers, as a thank you gesture, he produced a parody of the Cinnamon challenge. In 2016, Lloyd hit 400,000 subscribers, Ahlquist has played several characters in the successful rap battles including Bill OReilly and Adolf Hitler. Epic Rap Battles of History received four wins at the 3rd Streamy Awards, by October 2014, the rap battles accumulated a total view count of over 1 billion, excluding the hundreds of millions of views earned by the season 1 episodes. Nothing I Aint Got No Watch New Things Holding The Seams Together Scars Cheap Beer Space Pops Over the Falls Lloyd Ahlquist at the Internet Movie Database

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Danny Aiello
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He had a pivotal role in the Spike Lee film Do the Right Thing as Salvatore Sal Frangione, earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Aiello also played Don Domenico Clericuzio in a miniseries, Mario Puzos The Last Don. Aiello, the fifth of six children, was born on West 68th Street, Manhattan, the son of Italian American parents Frances, a seamstress, aiellos father deserted the family even though his wife had gone blind. For many years, Aiello had publicly condemned his fathers desertion of his children, Aiello reconciled with his father in 1993, but to this day harbors a resentment of his fathers conduct. He moved to the South Bronx when he was seven, at the age of 16, Aiello lied about his age in order to enlist in the U. S. Army. After serving for three years, he returned to New York City and did various jobs in order to support himself, Aiello also once served as a union representative for Greyhound Bus workers and was a night club bouncer at the legendary New York comedy club, The Improv. Aiello broke into films in the early 1970s, one of his earliest roles came as a ballplayer in the 1973 baseball drama, Bang the Drum Slowly, with Robert De Niro. Aiello had a role as small-time hood Tony Rosato in The Godfather Part II. In 1980, Aiello had a role with Jan Michael Vincent in Defiance. The next year, he received acclaim for playing a racist New York City cop in Fort Apache, The Bronx with Paul Newman. In 1981, Danny Aiello won a Daytime Emmy Award for his appearance in an ABC Afterschool Special called A Family of Strangers. He was paired with De Niro again for the Sergio Leone gangster epic, Once Upon a Time in America and his many film appearances included three for director Woody Allen, who cast him in Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose of Cairo, and Radio Days. Aiello is perhaps best known for his role as pizzeria owner Sal in Spike Lees Do the Right Thing, at the time of the films release, in an interview with the Chicago Tribune, he called the role his first focal part. He further identified the film as a collaborative effort, during which Spike Lee at one point told him Whatever you wanna do. Aiello went on to write a scene he shared with John Turturro ten minutes prior to its production. The role earned him nominations for a Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, as well as film critic awards from Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles. Although his characters have often been vulgar and violent, Aiello has also portrayed sensitive and he also had sympathetic roles in the 1990 horror thriller Jacobs Ladder and the 1991 comedy-drama 29th Street. In Léon, The Professional, Aiello had an important role as a cafe owner who assigns jobs to a hitman

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Liam Aiken
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Liam Pádraic Aiken is an American actor. He has starred in such as Stepmom, Road to Perdition. Aiken was born in New York City, New York, the child of an Irish-born mother, Moya Aiken, and Bill Aiken. Bill died of cancer in October 1992, at age 34 and he attended Dwight-Englewood School, graduating in 2008. He then went on to major in film at New York University, Aiken made his professional acting debut in a Ford Motor Company commercial. He made his debut in the Broadway play A Dolls House at the age of seven. His first major role came when he starred in Stepmom. He appeared in Road to Perdition and the family film Good Boy and he turned down the role of Cole Sear in The Sixth Sense because his mother felt he was too young for the death-fixated role. He was also considered for the role of Harry Potter as he had worked with director Chris Columbus on Stepmom. However, as he is not British, Daniel Radcliffe took the part, Aiken went on to play intelligent 12-year-old orphan Klaus Baudelaire in Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events. He also appeared in The Killer Inside Me, in September 2011, he starred in the CBS series A Gifted Man. From 2012 to 2015, he narrated the audiobook versions of All the Wrong Questions, Liam Aiken at the Internet Movie Database Liam Aiken at AllMovie

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Claude Akins
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Claude Marion Akins was an American actor with a long career on stage, screen, and television. Powerful in appearance and voice, Akins could be counted on to play the tough guy, on the side of good or bad, in movies. He is remembered as Sheriff Lobo in the 1970s television series B. J. and the Bear, and later The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, Akins was born in Nelson, Georgia, but he grew up in Bedford, Indiana. He served with the U. S. Army Signal Corps in World War II in Burma, after the war, he graduated in 1949 from Northwestern University, where he had majored in Theatre and became a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. As a film actor, Akins first appeared in 1953s From Here to Eternity and he appeared as a seaman and shipmate of Lee Marvin in the 1954 The Caine Mutiny. He portrayed prisoner Joe Burdette in Rio Bravo, Naval Lt. Commander Farber in Dont Give Up the Ship, Sgt Kolowicz in Merrills Marauders and he had a tiny part in the movie The Sea Chase with John Wayne. He appeared with Yul Brynner and Robert Fuller in the film Return of the Seven, Akins was cast in a large number of television series, including The Adventures of Superman, in which he plays a villainous conspirator, Crusader, and I Love Lucy. He appeared once on Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Empire, Laredo, the series, Pony Express. He was cast as Jarret Sutton in Escape to Memphis and as Beaudry Rawlins in Duel on the River in Darren McGavins NBC series, the episode was later broadcast on the regular series as Rodeo Rough House. Beverly Garland also appeared in the episode as Nellie Austin, a sharpshooter, Akins and Garland much later appeared together in the 1963 episode The Chooser of the Slain on the ABC/Warner Bros. western series, The Dakotas. Dark had foiled a robbery by the Reeves brothers, one of whom was killed, but his hand was severely injured. June avoided her husband for his own protection when the outlaw brothers pursued them, clem Reeves was portrayed by Tony Young, later cast as Cord in the short-lived Gunslinger series on CBS. Ultimately, the gang was captured, and the Darks were reconciled, Akins was featured in two episodes of the original CBS series The Twilight Zone. He guest-starred in three each of Combat. and The Untouchables. He appeared on Rod Camerons early syndicated series, City Detective, Meet McGraw with Frank Lovejoy, the ABC/WB drama, The Roaring 20s, Akins other early appearances included a role as a policeman on Alfred Hitchcock Presents in Place of Shadows and Reward to Finder. Akins played another television cop, good-natured Sheriffs Detective Phillip Dix and he was in a first-season episode of Maverick titled Burial Ground of the Gods that starred Jack Kelly. In 1965 Akins played El Supremo in The Man from U. N. C. L. E, episode, The Very Important Zombie Affair. In 1967 Akins played Lt. Finch in The Lucy Show episode, Lucy Meets the Law, Lucy is eventually cleared of the crime when the actual redhead confesses to it

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John W. Albaugh
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John William Albaugh, Sr. was an American actor and manager. Born in Baltimore, it was there that he made his first real appearance on the stage as the character in a play called Brutus, or the Fall of Tarquin. Of his many subsequent impersonations, perhaps the best-known is that of Louis XI, after 1868 he was manager of theatres in St. Louis, New Orleans, and Albany. He was the lessee and manager of the Albany Grand Opera House in Washington. He owned the new Lyceum Theatre in Baltimore, where he made his last appearance in 1899 before retiring from the stage, Albaugh died at the home of his daughter in Jersey City from heart disease. New York OCLC502439799,6879488,652420987 Who Was Who in America, A component Volume of Whos Who in American History, Volume 1, 1897–1942, chicago OCLC1432949 Notable Names in the American Theatre, James T. White & Co. W. New York Inline citations John W. Albaugh at the Internet Broadway Database

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Eddie Albert
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Edward Albert Heimberger, known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, other well-known screen roles of his include Bing Edwards in the Brother Rat films, traveling salesman Ali Hakim in the musical Oklahoma. And the sadistic prison warden in 1974s The Longest Yard and he starred as Oliver Wendell Douglas in the 1960s television sitcom Green Acres and as Frank MacBride in the 1970s crime drama Switch. He also had a role as Carlton Travis on Falcon Crest. Edward Albert Heimberger was born in Rock Island, Illinois, on April 22,1906, the oldest of the five children of Frank Daniel Heimberger, a realtor and his year of birth is often given as 1908, but this is incorrect. His parents were not married when Albert was born, and his mother altered his birth certificate after her marriage, when he was one year old, his family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Young Edward secured his first job as a boy when he was only six. During World War I, his German name led to taunts as the enemy by his classmates and he studied at Central High School in Minneapolis and joined the drama club. His schoolmate Harriet Lake graduated in the same class, finishing high school in 1926, he entered the University of Minnesota, where he majored in business. When he graduated, he embarked on a business career, however, the stock market crash in 1929 left him essentially unemployed. He then took odd jobs, working as a performer, an insurance salesman. Albert stopped using his last name professionally, since it invariably was mispronounced as Hamburger and he moved to New York City in 1933, where he co-hosted a radio show, The Honeymooners - Grace and Eddie Show, which ran for three years. At the shows end, he was offered a contract by Warner Bros. In the 1930s, Albert performed in Broadway stage productions, including Brother Rat and he had lead roles in Room Service and The Boys from Syracuse. Performing regularly on television, Albert wrote and performed in the first teleplay, The Love Nest. Hosted by Betty Goodwin, The Love Nest starred Albert, Hildegarde, The Ink Spots, Ed Wynn, before this time, television productions were adaptations of stage plays. In 1938, he made his debut in the Hollywood version of Brother Rat with Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman. The next year, he starred in On Your Toes, adapted for the screen from the Broadway smash by Rodgers and Hart

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Coit Albertson
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Coit Albertson was an American silent film actor. Eventually he became a man of the 1920s, and was well known for his many character roles in motion pictures. He became one of the number of silent movie actors who either would not or could not make the transition to the talkie era. His cremated remains are located in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Coit Albertson at the Internet Movie Database Coit Albertson at Find a Grave

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Jack Albertson
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Jack Albertson was an American actor, comedian, dancer and singer who also performed in vaudeville. For his contributions to the industry, Albertson was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6253 Hollywood Boulevard. Jack Albertson was born on June 16,1907, in Malden, Massachusetts and his older sister was actress Mabel Albertson. Albertsons mother, an actress, supported the family by working in a shoe factory. Until at least the age of 22, Albertson was known as Harold Albertson, Albertson worked in burlesque as a hoofer and straight man to Phil Silvers on the Minskys Burlesque Circuit. Albertson appeared in more than thirty films and he had an early minor role in Miracle on 34th Street as a postal worker who redirects dead letters addressed to Santa Claus to the courthouse where Kris Kringle is on trial. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the 1968 film The Subject Was Roses and he later apologized to Jack Wild for winning the award, Wild was also nominated and Albertson expected Wild to win. Albertson appeared as Charlie Buckets Grandpa Joe in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, and in The Poseidon Adventure, Albertson said that his one regret was that he did not reprise his role in the movie version of The Sunshine Boys. Albertson was a radio performer early in his career was known for appearing on two programs, Just Plain Bill and The Jack Albertson Comedy Show, later, he was for a time a regular on the Milton Berle Show in the late 1940s. Albertson appeared in television series, such as Hey, Jeannie. With Jeannie Carson, the western series Frontier Doctor with Rex Allen, Rod Camerons syndicated crime drama State Trooper. He guest-starred on the David Janssen crime drama series Richard Diamond, from 1960–1961, Albertson was cast in three episodes of Pete and Gladys, with Harry Morgan and Cara Williams. On January 2,1961, Albertson was cast as Sampson J. Binton, with DeForest Kelley as Alex Jeffords, in Listen to the Nightingale, the series finale of Riverboat, starring Darren McGavin. Albertson had a role as the neighbor Walter Burton in eight episodes of the 1962 ABC sitcom Room for One More, with Andrew Duggan. He had recurring roles in Ensign OToole and Run, Buddy, other 1960s series on which Albertson appeared were NBCs sitcom, Happy starring Ronnie Burns, and Glynis, starring Glynis Johns and Keith Andes, which aired for 13 weeks in the fall of 1963. Albertson appeared in two episodes of The Twilight Zone, in a 1967 episode of The Andy Griffith Show, he played the ner-do-well cousin, Bradford J. Taylor, of series character Aunt Bee. He co-starred as The Man Ed Brown in Chico and the Man, with Freddie Prinze and he resided for many years in West Hollywood, California. In 1978, he was diagnosed with cancer, but kept this information private

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Robert Alda
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Robert Alda was an American theatrical and film actor and father of actors Alan and Antony Alda. A talented singer and dancer, Alda was featured in a number of Broadway productions before moving to Italy during the early 1960s. He appeared in many European films over the two decades, occasionally returning to the U. S. for film appearances such as The Girl Who Knew Too Much. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York in 1930 and he began as a singer and dancer in vaudeville after winning a talent contest, and moved on to burlesque. Alda is known for portraying George Gershwin in the biopic Rhapsody in Blue as well as the talent agent in the Douglas Sirk classic Imitation of Life. He was very successful on Broadway, starring in Guys and Dolls, for which he won a Tony Award and he was also the host of the short-lived DuMont TV version of the game show Whats Your Bid. Aldas first wife, and mother of actor Alan Alda, Joan Browne, was a homemaker and former beauty pageant winner, Alda was married to his second wife, Flora Marino, an Italian actress whom he met in Rome, until his death. Alda made two guest appearances with his son Alan on M*A*S*H, in the episodes The Consultant and Lend a Hand, the latter episode also featured Antony Alda, his younger son by his second wife. Alda appeared in an episode of The Feather and Father Gang in 1977, Alda died on May 3,1986, aged 72, after a long illness following a stroke. The Front Page My Daughter, Your Son What Makes Sammy Run

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Louis Aldrich
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Louis Aldrich, né Salma Lyon, was a stage actor who later became president of the Actors Fund of America. Aldrich was born at sea while his mother was on her way from Germany to the United States and he was later adopted by a family living in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Whitewater College in Wayne County, Indiana through 1857 and his name was Salma Lyon, but he finally took Louis Aldrich as his legal and professional designation. In 1863 the troupe returned to California, and disbanded after playing in San Francisco for four weeks and he then joined Maguires Opera House Company in San Francisco, California. He remained there from 1863 through 1866 and he became a member of the stock company at the Boston Theatre in March,1866, opening as Nathan to the Leah of Ellen Bateman. Frank Mayo had been cast for the part, and his name appeared on the posters and he remained at the Boston Theatre for eight seasons, playing in the many old plays revived at that house, and supporting Forrest, Booth, Cushman, and others in leading roles. In 1870 he appeared in Armadale and he then played in Leah the Forsaken. Fords company in Baltimore, at Booths Theatre in New York, on September 11,1888, he produced The Kaffir Diamond at the new Broadway Theatre in New York, and two years later starred in The Editor. He subsequently appeared in Her Atonement and other plays, with occasional returns to his popular success My Partner, in 1893 he appeared in The Senator at the Grand Opera House in New Bedford, Massachsettes. In 1897, he became the president of the Actors Fund of America, whos Who in America, Historical Voluma, 1607-1896

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Ira Aldridge
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Ira Frederick Aldridge was an American and later British stage actor and playwright who made his career after 1824 largely on the London stage and in Europe, especially in Shakespearean roles. He was especially popular in Prussia and Russia, where he received top honors from heads of state and he was married twice, once to an Englishwoman, once to a Swedish woman, and had a family in England. Two of his daughters became professional opera singers, Aldridge was born in New York City to Reverend Daniel and Luranah Aldridge on July 24,1807. At age 13, Aldridge went to the African Free School in New York City, established by the New York Manumission Society for the children of black people. They were given an education, with the study of English grammar, writing, mathematics, geography. His classmates at the African free school included Charles L. Reason, George T. Downing, Aldridges first professional acting experience was in the early 1820s with the African Company, a group founded and managed by William Henry Brown and James Hewlett. In 1821, the built the African Grove Theatre, the first resident African-American theatre in the United States. Aldridge made his debut as Rolla, a Peruvian character in Richard Brinsley Sheridans Pizarro. He may have played the male lead in Romeo and Juliet, as reported later in an 1860 memoir by his schoolfellow. Confronted with the persistent discrimination which black actors had to endure in the United States, Aldridge emigrated to Liverpool, England, during this time the Industrial Revolution had begun, bringing about radical economic change that helped expand the development of theatres. The British Parliament had already outlawed the trade and was moving toward abolishing slavery in the British colonies. Having limited onstage experience and lacking name recognition, Aldridge concocted a story of his African lineage, by 1831 he had taken the name of Keene, a homonym for the then popular British actor, Edmund Kean. Aldridge observed a common practice of assuming an identical or similar nomenclature to that of a celebrity in order to garner attention. In addition to being called F. W. Keene Aldridge, he would later be called African Roscius, on October 10,1825, Aldridge made his European debut at Londons Royal Coburg Theatre, the first African-American actor to establish himself professionally in a foreign country. He played the role of Oroonoko in The Revolt of Surinam, or A Slaves Revenge. According to the scholar Shane White, English people had heard of the African Theatre because of British actor and comedian Charles Mathews, bernth Lindfors says, hen Aldridge starts appearing on the stage at the Royalty Theatre, hes just called a gentleman of color. But when he moves over to the Royal Coburg, hes advertised in the first playbill as the American Tragedian from the African Theater New York City, the second playbill refers to him as The African Tragedian. So everybody goes to the theater expecting to laugh because this is the man they think Mathews saw in New York City, an innovation Aldridge introduced early in his career was a direct address to the audience on the closing night of his engagement at a given theatre

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River Alexander
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River Alexander is an American actor. Alexander was born in Southwest Ranches, Florida and he attended American Heritage School in Plantation, Florida. Alexanders first professional performance was on stage at the age of 11 in New York City at the Public Theater in the musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and he then went on to perform in the Broadway national tour of Billy Elliot the Musical. He has had several roles on television. His first film role was in 2013s summer indie hit The Way, Way Back in the role of Peter and he is currently filming Boychoir, to be released in 2015. Official website River Alexander at the Internet Movie Database

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Ross Alexander
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Ross Alexander was an American stage and film actor. Alexander was born Alexander Ross Smith in Brooklyn, New York, Alexander began his acting career in Broadway productions during the 1920s. By 1926, he was regarded as a leading man with good looks. He was signed to a contract by Paramount Pictures, but his film debut in The Wiser Sex was not a success. In 1934, he was signed to another contract, this time by Warner Bros. His biggest successes of the period were A Midsummer Nights Dream and he married actress Aleta Freel in 1934. The marriage ended the year when Freel committed suicide on December 7,1935. Alexander soon after married another actress, Anne Nagel, with whom he had appeared in the films China Clipper, in 1936 he starred in Hot Money. It was a role in his persona as a glamorous, wore-clothes-well leading man. Warner Bros. had decided by time that Alexanders potential as an actor was limited. Although they continued casting him in films, the importance of his roles was greatly diminished, with his professional and personal lives in disarray and deeply in debt, Alexander shot himself in the head in the barn behind his home. It has been reported that Alexander used the gun his wife Aleta Freel shot herself with 13 months earlier. Other sources, however, claim that, while both used.22 caliber bullets, Ross used a pistol, while Aleta used a rifle and his final film, Ready, Willing and Able, was released posthumously. Appleton, Wisconsin Post Crescent, Anne Nagels Death Revives Old Mystery, August 29,1966, Ross Alexander at AllMovie Ross Alexander at Find a Grave Ross Alexander at the Internet Broadway Database Ross Alexander at the Internet Movie Database

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George Ali
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George Ali was an actor who specialized in the skin game, playing animals in stage and cinema productions, known as an Animal Impersonator. Barrie had written the part expecting it to be played by a boy, Ali played the character at the age of 58. George Alis performance as Nana was highly acclaimed, of particular note is the puppeteering of Nana’s mouth and eyes. Ali manipulates the head features from within, picking up towels and carrying spoons and he was a very skilled puppeteer and gymnast. It’s unknown if Ali also had a hand in creating his special costumes, in the early days of film and television, it was not uncommon for makeup artists and stuntmen to create and perform their own special effects characters. It is said that he played the part of the Crocodile as well. Ali died April 26,1947, in Freeport, Long Island, arizona Exhibit II Whirl-i-gig Tom, Tom, the Pipers Son George Ali at Neverpedia George Ali at the Internet Movie Database

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Chad Allen (actor)
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Chad Allen is an American actor. Beginning his career at the age of seven, Allen is a three-time Young Artist Award winner and he announced his retirement from acting in April 2015. Allen was born Chad Allen Lazzari in Cerritos, California, and he has a twin sister named Charity and a brother named Steve Lazzari who works for Union Pacific Railroad. Allen is of predominantly Italian origin, with a dose of German origin and he was raised within a strict Roman Catholic household and regards himself as being a deeply spiritual person because of his upbringing. Allen attended St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower, California, the series final episode, The Last One, ends with the indication that all of its storylines occurred in Tommys imagination. In 1983, he appeared on Cutter to Houston, playing a kid who got hurt and had to be given mouth-to-mouth, I thought it was the greatest job I had ever gotten, he later stated. Allens first regular role was as David Witherspoon on Our House, in 1989-90, he had a recurring role as Zach in My Two Dads. Allens next contract role was Matthew Cooper in Dr. Quinn, in 1996, at age 21, Allen was outed as gay when the U. S. tabloid The Globe published photos of him kissing another man in a hot tub at a party. The photos were sold by someone who claimed to be a friend of the couple, Allen has since become an activist for the LGBT community in addition to his continuing acting and producing career. On January 17,2006, Allen appeared on CNNs Larry King Live with San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom to represent his viewpoint in a debate over same-sex marriage, Allen thanked Newsom for his attempts to legalize same-sex marriage in the city. Allen has been featured in The Advocate magazine multiple times and has appeared on three of its covers, starting with Third Man Out, Allen stars as Donald Strachey, a gay private detective in a monogamous relationship, in a series of television movies for the here. Network based on novels by Richard Stevenson, the sequel, Shock to the System, was followed by On the Other Hand, Death and Ice Blues. When Allen was cast as real-life Christian missionary Nate Saint in the docudrama End of the Spear some conservative Christians lashed out at producers for casting an openly gay man in the role, in 2007, Allen starred in the film Save Me. Developed and produced by Allen, the film was directed by Robert Cary, Save Me, a film exploring the ex-gay movement, premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and was later picked up for distribution by independent studio Fine Line Features. From June through August 2008, Allen appeared with Valerie Harper in Looped, in November 2006, The Los Angeles Daily News wrote in passing that Allens partner, Jeremy Glazer, was also in the film Save Me. In a September 2008 interview with Out. com, Allen stated that he was currently in a relationship and had been sober for eight years. In October 2008, AfterElton. com stated his boyfriend to be Glazer, in May 2009, Allen was the recipient of a GLAAD Media Award, the Davidson/Valentini Award. In his acceptance speech he said he had met Glazer, his partner, in April 2015, Allen announced in a video his retirement from acting, saying that he plans to become a clinical psychologist